Re: [Gnumed-devel] gnumed / ebuild / install.sh

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Friday 12 August 2005 07:25, David Grant wrote:
> So, after disapearing for months, I'm finally reappeared, but I've actually
> done something in my absence (actually just this morning). I created a
> gentoo ebuild: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37574 It uses the
> source from here:
> http://www.gnumed-praxissoftware.de/GNUmed-client.0.1-rc4.tgz
>
> Not sure if anyone else uses Gentoo, but I really hate installing things
> manually, I like having the robust uninstall/upgrade path available to me
> for any package, even gnumed.
>
> Here's some comments... install.sh is not bad, and neither is the gnumed
> binary. Installs to /usr/lib/python/site-packages/Gnumed and adds the
> necessary directories to PYTHONPATH...good stuff. In gentoo my package has
> to divert to /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Gnumed, but never mind,
> that's no big deal at this point. Why does install put gnumed.conf
> into /etc/gnumed/gnumed.conf if it isn't being used? It should be put
> in /usr/share/gnumed*/examples/gnumed.conf, am I right?
You tell me. I know litlle about where this file should live. You are right. 
It should go into examples. 

Does GNUmed create a reasonable config file if none is available ?
I remember the gnumed.sh file I provide does copy the config file to a user's 
home dir. Maybe we should drop that.

But in that case we need to make a user aware of the situation that he or she 
needs to provide a reasonable config file. This is unusual. I can't think of 
a program which does not run without a config file. 

Sebastian

>
> David

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